Artist’s Statement

McConnie’s work is grotesque and carnivalesque. His imagery, through their ambivalence, are attempts to defeat fear through laughter. McConnie uses etching as a great equalizer: beauty and loss are mixed with vomit and daemons. The interlinking narratives of his prints and drawings build-up a world where big-business pumpkin-heads vie with travellers and jesters in an ever increasing pace towards their mutual destruction.